Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Simplicity

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Moses, Grandma

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Holliwell, Raymond

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Hemingway, Ernest

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Ruskin, John

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Bennett, Tony

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Hoare, C.A.R.

Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Churchill, Winston

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

Albert Einstein

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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In our systems work through simplicity, consistency, and repetition.

Kinder, Jack

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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Johnson, Samuel

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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

Morris, William

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

Proverb, Chinese

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Einstein, Albert

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Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Seabury, David

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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Lee, Bruce

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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Aristotle

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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

James, Henry

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao-tzu

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

Alford

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.

Lee, Bruce

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.

Stuberg, Robert

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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

Kempis, Thomas

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Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

Mann, Thomas

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When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Descartes, Rene

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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Cooper, James F.